US20080159569A1 - Method and Arrangement for the Sensitive Detection of Audio Events and Use Thereof - Google Patents

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US20080159569A1
US20080159569A1 US11/817,704 US81770406A US2008159569A1 US 20080159569 A1 US20080159569 A1 US 20080159569A1 US 81770406 A US81770406 A US 81770406A US 2008159569 A1 US2008159569 A1 US 2008159569A1
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61F—FILTERS IMPLANTABLE INTO BLOOD VESSELS; PROSTHESES; DEVICES PROVIDING PATENCY TO, OR PREVENTING COLLAPSING OF, TUBULAR STRUCTURES OF THE BODY, e.g. STENTS; ORTHOPAEDIC, NURSING OR CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICES; FOMENTATION; TREATMENT OR PROTECTION OF EYES OR EARS; BANDAGES, DRESSINGS OR ABSORBENT PADS; FIRST-AID KITS
    • A61F11/00—Methods or devices for treatment of the ears or hearing sense; Non-electric hearing aids; Methods or devices for enabling ear patients to achieve auditory perception through physiological senses other than hearing sense; Protective devices for the ears, carried on the body or in the hand
    • A61F11/04—Methods or devices for enabling ear patients to achieve auditory perception through physiological senses other than hearing sense, e.g. through the touch sense
    • A61F11/045—Methods or devices for enabling ear patients to achieve auditory perception through physiological senses other than hearing sense, e.g. through the touch sense using mechanical stimulation of nerves
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09B—EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
    • G09B21/00—Teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute
    • G09B21/001—Teaching or communicating with blind persons
    • G09B21/003—Teaching or communicating with blind persons using tactile presentation of the information, e.g. Braille displays
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    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09B—EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS
    • G09B21/00—Teaching, or communicating with, the blind, deaf or mute
    • G09B21/009—Teaching or communicating with deaf persons

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  • the method and the arrangement envision reflecting audio events as feelings or sensations on the skin.
  • excitations are transmitted onto the skin by vibrations from a vibration transmitter or by means of other transmitters.
  • the frequency and amplitude of the vibrations with the vibration transmitter are derived from the audio event.
  • vibration transmitters are referred to in the following, this includes in a similar way other signal transmitters on, or into the skin.
  • the relatively low resolution of the skin is increased in that from every phase of the audio event—with speech, thus, from every sound—the control voltage for the vibration transmitter is formed only from the spectral range of emphasis. Highlighting the characteristic spectral features increases the recognizability of a sound.
  • a further increase in the identifiability occurs through a variable location of the effect of the vibration transmitter. Through this, along with the vibration amplitude and frequency, additional distinct sensible differences are attained.
  • defined spectral ranges are allocated to defined vibration transmitters; furthermore, the number of active vibration transmitters, and thereby the breadth of effect can be varied, and finally, control of several vibration transmitters can be considered in a fast serial progression with regard to the duration of the sound, whereby the feeling arises as if a vibration transmitter moves over the skin.
  • the location, width, and dynamics of the effect can be significantly distinguished.
  • a further differentiation in distinguishable effect patterns would require a concentration that is too high, and would be difficult to detect with rapidly changing speech sounds.
  • a dynamic compression of the audio events is also provided, through which quiet phases can be amplified so far that control voltages derived from them lead to vibrations that can be sensed.
  • broadband bright sibilants s, z, ts
  • broadband bright sibilants s, z, ts
  • Consonants with darker acoustical color are similarly perceptible with a larger base width, however, they are perceptible farther outside.
  • Transiently acting broadband voiced stop consonants (b, p, g, d, q) are perceptible over the entire available base width.
  • some of the vibration transmitters are activated with two separate control signals, namely, the center ones with a control voltage representing the high spectral range, the outer ones with a control voltage representing the lower spectral range.
  • control voltages are supplied transiently to all vibration transmitters in a rapid serial sequence.
  • the music emphasizes the bass i.e., the spectral emphasis is in the range less than 150 Hz
  • all vibration transmitters are activated with the low-pass filtered (4-pole) music signal.
  • the emission of excitations is concentrated on the transmission of the mainly rhythmically occurring bass bursts.
  • the inner vibration transmitters are switched to the high-pass characteristic for the duration of the higher-frequency bursts.
  • Another advantageous embodiment of the invention provides for analysis of the representative signals of the control voltages for the vibration transmitter, or other transmitters, in the presence of specific patterns and, when they are detected, performing a specific serial activation of the vibration transmitters.
  • the background of this solution variant is the transmission of signal information to people who are, e.g., hearing impaired. Thus, a specific audio event can be made “audible.” Based on this, a “language” can be built.
  • the vibration transmitters are also provided with skin-exciting materials or devices that heighten the feeling or sensation of the skin.
  • resonating needles for this, resonating needles, stimulation currents, heat impulses, or also suction actions can be used.
  • feelings or sensations are to be conveyed on or into the skin in combination with vibration transmitters, or also through other such excitation providers alone.
  • This also includes implants implanted in the skin such as acupuncture needles, whose position can be changed by electromagnetic impulses and that therefore give rise to excitations.
  • FIG. 1 shows: a circuit arrangement
  • FIG. 2 shows: an allocation of frequency ranges to the vibration transmitters
  • the audio event is received through a signal-receiving component 1 , which can be a microphone or an adapter cable, e.g., to a sound system, to a PC or headset, or which can be a radio-operated signal receiver, and broadband amplified using an amplifier with a control circuit for dynamic compression 2 .
  • a signal-receiving component 1 which can be a microphone or an adapter cable, e.g., to a sound system, to a PC or headset, or which can be a radio-operated signal receiver, and broadband amplified using an amplifier with a control circuit for dynamic compression 2 .
  • the signal is divided into several spectral ranges using filter circuits 3 .
  • the output signals from the filter circuits are supplied, on the one hand, to the rectifier circuits 4 for recognition of the amplitudes, and in parallel to ten adder circuits 6 , whose output signals control the vibration transmitters 8 through power amplifiers 7 .
  • This arrangement makes it possible that each vibration transmitter can be activate
  • the amplitudes of the rectified, filtered signal portions are compared using comparator circuits 9 and from the amplitude and timing relations, the control voltages for the matrix are derived using a logical combining circuit 10 according to a predetermined excitation response of the vibration transmitter.
  • NF filtering NF filtering
  • detection and comparison of amplitudes NF filtering
  • determination of control voltages NF filtering
  • FIG. 2 shows that the vibration transmitters 8 in an advantageous use of the method are arranged on the inside of a belt 11 worn around the hips, and are symmetrical to the left and right of center in the longitudinal direction of the belt 11 .
  • the various vibration transmitters 8 are allocated the frequency ranges:
  • the vibration transmitters 8 are arranged on the belt 11 , preferably on vibration transmitter segments 12 of the belt 11 , mirror-symmetrically on both sides with respect to the vibration transmitter 8.0.
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